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Originally Posted by Ichiran
Roger Smith, Lang & Heyne, some Patek, some Voutilainen, some Romain Gauthier, some Breguet, some Piaget, and some Ludovic Ballouard.
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All of these, I believe, are plated or frosted gold (a thin layer on the surface), not solid gold.
This is true of everyone's comments, except mine.
The VC movement I mentioned is solid gold. That's the only example that came immediately to mind apart from the well-known one of FPJ. FPJ at one point had a solid gold dial, silvered, with the numerals embossed and then polished down to expose the rose gold. A watch such as this, fitted with FPJ's excellent solid rose gold bracelet, would be almost entirely gold, from bracelet to case to movement to dial. I have the watch but chose not to get the bracelet...
Solid gold escapement bridges are available from RGM as an option, but I don't believe they have done a watch with the whole movement in solid gold. Plated gold is available, of course.
For clarity, the Breguet movement pictured in another post, while beautiful, is not solid gold.